Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS of The Pirate Bay website is being held by Denmark under harsh conditions in solitary confinement without a warrant, and has no access to comforts like books to read or telephone privileges.

Supporters including his mother and Julian Assange are petitioning for his release or better treatment.

Warg is accused in Denmark of hacking into computers. He faced similar charges in Sweden for alleged hacking attacks on two companies, however during the summer the Swedish court of Appeal upheld his conviction with respect to an attack on Logica, but overturned the verdict on Nordea bank charges.

In Denmark he is accused of hacking into computer services company CSC and a drivers' licence database. Danish National Police Commissioner Hojbjerg described the hacking attack as "sophisticated".

Warg's lawyer Luise Høi said that Denmark has stepped over the edge of proper legal process, explaining, "It is the case that Danish authorities are holding my client in solitary confinement without a warrant."

His mother Kristina Svartholm has used her Twitter account to comment on the harsh jail conditions that her son is being subjected to, saying that he, a nonviolent hacker, is being jailed among violent criminals. She added that she wrote to Amnesty Sweden previously but received no assistance.

@EvaKlaess@gerge42 Silence. Swedish Amnesty told me 13 months ago that they couldn't help me because he was imprisoned in Sweden. And now?

She told Torrentfreak that the situation in Sweden was easier, explaining that her son was permitted to communicate with her in phone calls and receive visits in jail. She said she has posted another letter to Amnesty.

"I visited him every week, unsupervised, sometimes with an additional person. He rang me daily throughout the fall and his letters, etc., were not checked," she said.

"For a long time he has had every opportunity in the world to complicate investigations for the Danish police if he had wanted." µ